Letâs face it: Most of us don't give much thought to our pee before we flush it out of sight. But the basic details of your urine -- color, smell, and how often you go -- can give you a hint about whatâs going on inside your body. Pee is your bodyâs liquid waste, mainly made of water, salt, and chemicals called urea and uric acid. Your kidneys make it when they filter toxins and other bad stuff from your blood.
Further refining may be performed using one of two processes. In cementation, the acidic solution of copper is deposited on to scrap iron in an oxidation-reduction reaction. After sufficient amounts of copper have been plated, the copper is further refined using the pyrometallurgical process.
Copper's recycling value is so great that premium-grade scrap normally has at least 95% of the value of the primary metal from newly mined ore. The ability to reuse copper extracted from recycled product is a tribute to an industry that's environmentally conscious regarding its use of natural resources on behalf of consumers.